False Outrage At Its Finest

The Trayvon Martin case has brought out the usual suspects of African American “leaders” who cry racism at every turn. The Reverends Jackson and Sharpton, using the same rhetoric of the Rodney King and Tawana Brawley cases, claim to be representing the black population.

But not all black leaders agree with their tactics.

Southern Baptist leader Richard Land has put his two cents in.

“Jesse Jackson says blacks are under attack. Louis Farrakhan vows retaliation. Rev. Al Sharpton organized massive protests demanding Mr. Zimmerman be arrested and sent to jail. [But the facts of the case will] be vetted in court, not in a mob mentality that's been juiced up by Al Sharpton who is a provocateur and racial ambulance chaser of the first order aided and abetted by Jesse Jackson.”

Rev. C.L. Bryant, once the chapter president of the Garland, Texas NAACP, said Martin’s family “should be outraged at the fact that they’re using this child as the bait to inflame racial passions.” He called Jackson and Sharpton “race hustlers” who are “acting as though they are buzzards circling the carcass of this young boy.”

And Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King Jr., says she hopes Americans will see through it all. “[They] hype this so much to a point and make all these big demonstrations. Of course, there should be an outrage and there should be an outcry. But, remember: There are many other young people who are at risk and many young people getting killed in violent situations…I would believe that, by stirring up all of the emotions and reactions, I want to encourage them to remember the man that they say that they followed, to remember that his message (MLK’s) was nonviolence and very loving.” The likes of Jackson and Sharpton should “talk about nonviolence and not incite people with that race card that they are very good at playing.”

Her point of “many young people getting killed in violence situations” should not be underscored. The United States Bureau of Justice Statistics shows that 93% of blacks killed each year are killed by other blacks. Black on black violence is the Elephant in the Room that “leaders” like Sharpton and Jackson refused to acknowledge. While blacks are at about 12.5% of our population, nearly 50% of all homicide victims are black.

Why don’t these civil rights “leaders” work on that? Where are their demonstrations, their outcries, and their demands for justice for the 41 people, mostly African-American, who were shot and killed in Chicago alone in just three days this year?

Until these “leaders” address those injustices, their words of outrage are indeed just plain false.